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To: opticks
Divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. It makes sense. Except five is kind of out of the loop. Base 30 maybe? Naah, entirely too big.

And learning a base 12 system would be hell on a stick for me. Base ten is, like, part of the furniture of my mind.

8 posted on 05/25/2006 7:10:28 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Gordongekko909
Divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6. It makes sense. Except five is kind of out of the loop. Base 30 maybe? Naah, entirely too big.

Base 60 is how the ancients did it (See clocks). 360 if they got really wild, like for geometry.

20 posted on 05/25/2006 7:37:53 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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